Food & drink – Mar 11
Dmitry Orlov: Grandpa Orlov’s vodka recipe
Gene Logsdon: A new look at ol’ demon alcohol
Sharon Astyk: climate-friendly bulk dry foods
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – Mar 11
Sustainable food (and over-regulation)
UK honey bees ‘wiped out in 10 years’
The Greenhorns: New breed Of American Idol?
UN warns on food price inflation
Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist
Peak oil – Mar 11
Stuart Staniford: Food to 2050
Matt Simmons on Fast Money
Green UK MEP
Caroline Lucas on PO, food and Transition Handbook
The Australia 2020 Summit – climate & PO
Rep. Bartlett Delivers 39th PO talk (video)
Bouncing in the wool sack
The wise men of agribusiness did not predict that pasture farming— raising animals on pasture with little or no grain, would become the trend that it is today. Pasture farming more than anything else allows for a return of small scale agriculture because it is a low-cost way to get started in farming.
Relocalizing Eden
The bioregion defined by the Willamette River watershed in Oregon is one of the most bountiful in the United States. The agricultural picture of the Willamette Valley, however, has been turned inside out in the last 25 years. Nearly everything we eat comes from some place else. (Case study)
The next agriculture
Recent debates around the future of agriculture on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, wrestling with questions of the reversibility of the rise of industrial agriculture, have missed two crucial points. First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.
Food & agriculture – Mar 5
Australian PM: Farmers to adapt for climate change
USA grain exports – Where to, how much?
In highland Peru, a culture confronts blight
NGOs wary of doomsday seed vault
How organic corn triumphed over chemical corn
The year is 1970 and as the scene opens in the Blue Room Cafe, known locally as Blue Room University, a group of farmers are discussing the pros and cons of growing corn the usual way and the new-fangled organic way. [Fiction, based on a historical events]
Peak oil – Mar 4
IEA’s Fatih Birol: We can’t cling to crude
Ken Livingstone – Peak oil “opportunity” for London Mayor
Nansen G. Saleri: The world has plenty of oil
Fears of a commodity crash grow (oil too?)
Bread and oil: rising food prices and the Middle East
Food & agriculture – Mar 4
Agriculture’s new ‘golden age’
King of soya: environmental vandal or saviour of the world’s poor?
My forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
South Africa electricity crisis – and farmers
Okla. fight over poultry waste escalates
NYT on food: Priced out of the market
In hungry Zimbabwe, pet food as a priority
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
The day China runs dry
China’s massive but dwindling aquifers would be on track to run virtually dry if over-pumping continued, said Lester Brown, prominent US environmental policy advocate. At that point, grain production would dive, exacerbating food price increases. (Interview with Lester Brown)
